One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.